This link opens in a pop-up window
Amina al-Sirafi should be content. After a storied and scandalous career as one of the …
This was good fun, a story about a woman pirate on the Indian Ocean before Western domination.
Inheriting your mysterious uncle's supervillain business is more complicated than you might imagine.
Sure, there …
Ok this was great. Read the whole thing over the course of 24 hours. Don't want to spoil anything but 5 stars, read it.
Inheriting your mysterious uncle's supervillain business is more complicated than you might imagine.
Sure, there …
5 chapters in and I'm already finding this delightful and a breath of fresh air after trudging through my last book.
Inheriting your mysterious uncle's supervillain business is more complicated than you might imagine.
Sure, there …
Starting in on the Hugo nominations
This turned out to be a bit of a slog. While the first book was a good narrative, this just felt like someone was describing a blow by blow walkthrough the game.
Here we go
When a horror-loving radio show becomes the stage of a gruesome murder, its host Tinsel …
This was absolute trash. A good story hiding in there but it was in need of a good edit and a good editor (seriously, "poring" and "pouring" are not the same word). Felt like I was reading fanfic half the time.
The Dragon Reborn—the leader long prophesied who will save the world, but in the saving …
Starting to get into the story now. Might give the audiobooks a break now though so I can catch up on my backlog of podcasts.
A haunting Southern Gothic from an award-winning master of suspense, A House With Good Bones …
I enjoyed this and was secretly relieved that it wasn't as terrifying a story as The Twisted Ones. Still creepy but much lower key horror than TTO.
This was ok but a bit navel-gazey, which is fine if that's what you're after. I read a lot of it before going to sleep and while very tired so I maybe didn't take in as much of that introspection as I should have.
The Dragon Reborn—the leader long prophesied who will save the world, but in the saving …
The next audiobook.
All her life, Kyr has trained for the day she can avenge the destruction of …
Content warning Minor spoilers for themes
I did quite enjoy this, despite the themes of genocide, cult brainwashing, and rape/domestic violence/coercive control. I think I'm due a good cozy, low stress book next though.
All her life, Kyr has trained for the day she can avenge the destruction of …
Starting on the Hugo nominations (that I haven't already read).
Three thousand years ago, the Deep appeared without warning. This alien life form was quickly …
This turned out to be a pretty grim book. It's a lovely story about witches until you reach the genocide.
Look in the end I enjoyed reading this but I don't know if I'd recommend it to anyone. It's long and it's depressing. I enjoyed a lot of the nerd detail, and its very aligned to the sort of work I do (or at least my discipline); your average reader wouldn't get as excited about seeing Integrated Assessment Modelling or Dynamic Adaptive Policy Pathways mentioned or featured in fiction as me. If you are inclined to climate doomerism, definitely don't read this.
